SpamSandwich

Overton, huh? Gee, that’s not at all disturbing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window

But now the real reason I wanted to comment on this story...

Apple providing a secure crypto wallet option in their Wallet app could be a good thing, but the thing that people get lazy about with their investments is they will keep their holdings in “secure accounts” on the Internet when they are not trading, which is a huge mistake. The people I know who have made a lot of money in crypto and who have been able to keep their holdings will use a very reliable exchange, like Gemini.com (US-based trading only), then download their crypto to a hardware wallet for secure storage offline. Never keep crypto in an online account, they are far too prone to hacking or theft. One can also use a printed wallet (which is not digital at all) or as I mentioned before, use a secure wallet like Trezor and store it in a very safe location. Crypto is like digital cash, so you have to treat it like cash. Good practices are storing wallets or hard drives used for trading in an air-gapped setting (no possibility of remote access) and/or in a safe.

Now, if Apple were to implement a hardware-based crypto wallet in the iPhone, that would be a great thing BUT if your phone were to be stolen or broken and become unusable, you’d be at extreme risk of losing your entire investment.

DAalseth said:

larryjw said:

I haven’t heard anything that would convince me cryptocurrencies are viable.

Coin mining takes the energy of a small city, yet they can only handle seven (7) transactions per second. 

 Cold fusion and cryptocurrencies are have a lot in common. 

Agreed. In ten or fifteen years we will look back and laugh at the suckers that fell for the scam. I’ve  said cryptocurrencies are a Ponzi scheme and I still think that’s accurate. Somebody creates one and advertises the hell out of it. They quietly hold onto a bunch of the worthless things. Suckers buy in and bid the value up. Then the founder unloads his holdings and pockets the real money he made. Classic Ponzi scheme.

you won’t catch me using or owning any of that s***.

Classic criticism without understanding what has been happening in the crypto space. Yes, there is a lot of volatility with many ‘coins’ because each one is like a startup. A startup has to bring something useful to their offering or they quickly become a tiny player. Bitcoin and Ethereum are the top two players, but Bitcoin alone has a market cap of 

I’ll tell you what, one aspect of iOS apps would particularly benefit users by being made available on macOS. Music production tools, plug-in effects and virtual instruments used on iPad & iPad Pro simply disappear now when GarageBand files are sent to the desktop, which results in additional production time lost attempting to duplicate results. And a number of unique instrument apps on iOS just are not available anywhere else.

designr said:

cpsro said:

lkrupp said:

They want gun control as if that would change anything and the 2nd Amendment is blocking those efforts.

The 2nd Amendment supports gun control--gun control far beyond what we have in the U.S.A. Its text is but one sentence in length:
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
That was written roughly 150 years before assault rifles and high capacity magazines appeared.

The phase "well regulated" plainly applies to "Militia" here. The "right" applies to the people ("the right of the people") (and, yes, this has been ruled to be an individual right not collective).

This amendment could be read as follows:

"Since a well regulated Militia is necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

Or, put another way:

"The right of the the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, because a well regulated Militia is necessary to the security of a free state."

Further just because it implies that people would be part of a militia, this is not stated as a requirement "to keep and bear arms". It simply says since since we think a (well regulated) militia is necessary to the security of a free state, we should not infringe on people's right to keep and bear arms.

The term “well regulated” today holds a different connotation than when originally written. At the time the Second Amendment was passed the term meant “calibrated correctly” or “functioning as expected”, not supervised or controlled by authorities. This difference in understanding of the actual definition illustrates the widespread influence of statist and collectivist beliefs in our country today.

https://constitution.org/cons/wellregu.htm